Tertiary Treatment of Effluent from Holston AAP Industrial Liquid Waste Treatment Facility. I. Batch Carbon Adsorption Studies: TNT, RDX, HMX, TAX, and SEX

Abstract

Adsorption of TNT, RDX, HMX, TAX, and SEX from aqueous solution by granular activated carbon has been investigated in the batch mode. Adsorption from solutions of individual compounds is favorable for TNT and reasonably efficient for nitramines; adsorption from a mixture of the compounds, however, exhibits competition for adsorption sites and reduced overall efficiency. These results do not encourage the use of granular activated carbon for nitramine control in munitions wastewaters.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA121244

Entities

People

  • W. D. Burrows

Organizations

  • United States Army Medical Research and Development Command

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adsorption
  • Alcohols
  • Aquatic Organisms
  • Confidence Limits
  • Crystal Lattices
  • Data Analysis
  • Detectors
  • Equations
  • Filter Paper
  • Information Science
  • Liquid Chromatography
  • Materials
  • Mixtures
  • Standards
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Tnt
  • Waste Treatment

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